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Le Pen Urges Govt. Shake-Up Over Attack

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Wants France's top cop to step down after Nice massacre.

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French far right leader Marine Le Pen has called on the nation's interior minister to step down after the attack in Nice. "In any other country in the world a minister with a toll as horrendous as Bernard Cazeneuve -- 250 dead in 18 months -- would have quit,"she said at a news conference on Saturday. Her comments came as the country began three days of mourning over a terrorist attack in Nice that killed 84 people on Thursday. Le Pen, the leader of the National Front party, also called for "a real war" to "eradicate" Islamic fundamentalism.

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